Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 188
23. Then the three, with despondent faces, having retired together on
one side, consulted with one another and came forward wearing the
appearance of youthful beauty.
24. Folding their hands in reverence they thus addressed the
Tathāgata, ‘O holy one, receive us as religious mendicants, we are
come to thy one refuge.
25. ‘Having heard the fame of thy achievements, we, the daughters of
Namuci, have come from the golden city, abandoning the life of a
household.
26. ‘We are desirous of repressing the teaching of our five hundred
brothers, – we would be freed from a master, as thou thyself art freed
from all passions.’
27. Having his mind continually guided by the conduct which leads to
Nirvāṇa, and setting himself to remember the (former) Buddhas, he
kept his eyes closed, absorbed in meditation.
28. Then again, having resolved on their new plan in concert, these
enchantresses, assuming an older aspect, approached once more to
delude him.
29. ‘We have come here after wandering under the dismal avatāra of
slaves’, – thou art the avatāra of Buddha, – do thou establish us,
mature, in the true Buddha doctrine.